Diane Di Prima – A New Year poem
Hi all, prompted by Robbie’s email to use the website! Here is a poet I am just discovering, a female beat generation poet… I had been thinking, I know about Allen Ginsberg, Frank O Hara and some of the other men but who were the women of that breakthrough movement. Here’s one of them, Diana […]
Happy Christmas – here’s one I prepared earlier (a few years ago)
Zombie
Zombie Don’t let the legends mislead you; we’re keen on personal hygiene. I shower every day, sometimes twice. I can tell you a thing or two about showers. I have eaten the flesh of millions, rejoiced in the sweet taste of blood, following orders from above, a mere instrument without guilt. Look, I am moving […]
Membership
Membership of Cross Border Poets has reached bursting point. Regrettably, from January 2017 onwards, we are unable to accept new members but will review the situation in six months time.
Testing
Just a test – ignore
Sun applies a tourniquet, drips green into brown, sups up red filigree. Pump up plump up, ready up for the sugar rush.
Turning the Table
Mummy and daddy waiting for the biggy forestalled asked their five year old `where do babies come from`? `tut tut tut, its hardly rocket science!
Dove and water
Clear water A dove drinks A caress of raindrops As she flutters Beneath the cascade Of cold water There just for her As she relishes her Cool drink With seed in abundance Lying on a dry earth She perches there Quietly cooing Now replete
Read Me
Read Me It’s not that I think I’m right It’s not that I want to present the facts It’s not that I think you are wrong It’s not that I want to change anyone. I just want you to see it how I see it and spend time with me. With this.
News
Coffee in hand fifteen minutes of pre-school debate Tussel – four minutes by Thesaurus twenty four nouns twenty two verbs fifteen minutes of coffee and sour grapes. Spit spit spit.